WORKSHOP: The Pioneers Workshop at the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

这笔资金用于支持大约24名研究生（其中12名来自美国，因此有资格获得资助）以及杰出的研究人员组成的先驱研讨会（博士联盟）。该活动将作为第12届人机交互国际会议（HRI 2017）的第一天活动的一部分，该会议将于3月6日至9日在奥地利维也纳举行，由ACM和IEEE联合主办。HRI是展示人机交互领域最好的跨学科和多学科研究的首要会议，其根源包括机器人，人工智能，社会心理学，认知科学，人机交互，人为因素，工程等多个领域。这是一个单轨、高度选择性的年度国际会议，邀请广泛参与。在“智慧城市维也纳”倡议的基础上，2017年人力资源研究所的主题是“智能互动”。会议从技术、设计、方法、行为和理论等广泛的角度寻求贡献，以推进人机交互的基础和应用知识和方法，目标是通过新的技术进步、新的机器人设计、新的设计指南以及理解和评估交互的先进方法实现人机交互。有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017。先锋研讨会将为下一代人机交互研究人员提供一个独特的机会，让他们接触和讨论当前和相关的主题，因为他们正在几个不同的研究团体中进行研究。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，在这个新兴领域，研究的变革性进展只能通过跨学科知识和跨国视角的融合来实现。参加者将被鼓励在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络，形成合作关系，并在未来几年提出新的研究问题。参加者也将获得领导和服务经验，因为工作坊主要由学生组织和领导。PI表示，他坚定致力于从代表性不足的群体中招募妇女和成员。为了进一步确保多样性，活动组织者将考虑申请人提供有关人力资源研究所的新视角和观点的潜力，将招收刚刚开始研究生学位课程的学生以及正在攻读学位的学生，并将努力将从特定机构接受的参与者人数限制在最多两名。作为今年的新特色，组织者还将邀请3名本科生（均符合资助条件），以帮助增加进入该领域的学生的多样性。先锋研讨会旨在补充会议，为人力资源研究所领域的学生和应届毕业生提供一个论坛，在一个比主要会议更不正式、更具互动性的环境中与同行和高级研究人员小组分享他们目前的研究。在研讨会期间，与会者将讨论该领域即将到来的重要研究主题，鼓励形成跨学科和地理边界的合作关系。为此，研讨会形式将包括各种活动，包括三个主题演讲，一个杰出的小组会议和分组会议。在一天的开始，所有的研讨会参与者将简要介绍自己和他们的兴趣。在开幕主题演讲之后，大约一半的参与者将对他们的工作进行3分钟的概述，然后进行互动海报环节。这将使所有参与者能够在非正式的环境中分享他们的研究，并从学生和高级研究人员那里获得反馈。研讨会组织者将促进演讲后的讨论，并鼓励参与者在互动休息和海报环节向他们的同龄人提问。午餐后，剩余的研讨会参与者将进行3分钟的概述，然后在第二次互动海报环节展示他们的海报。高级研究人员（除了小组成员）将被邀请参加学生演讲和海报会议，以便向与会者提供反馈，研讨会参与者也将被邀请在HRI会议的主要海报会议上展示他们的海报。讨论小组和与会者之间的对话将在午餐和晚餐期间继续进行。

This is funding to support a Pioneers Workshop (doctoral consortium) of approximately 24 graduate students (12 of whom are from the United States and therefore eligible for funding), along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place as part of the first day of activities at the 12th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), to be held March 6-9 in Vienna, Austria, and which is jointly sponsored by ACM and IEEE. HRI is the premier conference for showcasing the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on human-robot interaction, with roots in diverse fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, social psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, human factors, engineering, and many more. It is a single-track, highly selective annual international conference that invites broad participation. Building on the "Smart City Wien" initiative, the theme of HRI 2017 is "Smart Interaction." The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction, with the goal of enabling human-robot interaction through new technical advances, novel robot designs, new guidelines for design, and advanced methods for understanding and evaluating interaction. More information about the conference is available online at http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017. The Pioneers Workshop will afford a unique opportunity for the best of the next generation of researchers in human-robot interaction to be exposed to and discuss current and relevant topics as they are being studied in several different research communities. This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research in this fledgling area can only come through the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. Participants will also gain leadership and service experience, as the workshop is largely student organized and student led. The PI has expressed his strong commitment to recruiting women and members from under-represented groups. To further ensure diversity the event organizers will consider an applicant's potential to offer a fresh perspective and point of view with respect to HRI, will recruit students who are just beginning their graduate degree programs in addition to students who are further along in their degrees, and will strive to limit the number of participants accepted from a particular institution to at most two. As a new feature this year, the organizers will also invite 3 undergraduate students (all eligible for funding) to help increase diversity in the pipeline of students entering this field. The Pioneers Workshop is designed to complement the conference, by providing a forum for students and recent graduates in the field of HRI to share their current research with their peers and a panel of senior researchers in a setting that is less formal and more interactive than the main conference. During the workshop, participants will talk about the important upcoming research themes in the field, encouraging the formation of collaborative relationships across disciplines and geographic boundaries. To these ends, the workshop format will encompass a variety of activities including three keynotes, a distinguished panel session, and breakout sessions. To start the day, all workshop attendees will briefly introduce themselves and their interests. Following the opening keynote, approximately half of the participants will present 3-minute overviews of their work, leading into an interactive poster session. This will enable all participants to share their research and receive feedback from students and senior researchers in an informal setting. The workshop organizers will facilitate the post-presentation discussion and will encourage participants to ask questions of their peers during the interactive break and poster session. After lunch, the remaining workshop participants will give their 3-minute overviews, followed by presentation of their posters during a second interactive poster session. Senior researchers (in addition to those on the panel) will be invited to attend the student presentations and poster sessions in order to provide feedback to participants, and workshop participants will be invited to present their posters during the main poster session of the HRI conference as well. The conversations between the panel and participants will continue over lunch and during dinner.